Re: [xml] libxml2 - Unicode compile under MSVC 2010

["Martin B." <0xCDCDCDCD gmx at>]

On 30.03.2013 02:02, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
> * nscg wrote:
> > Since I would like to use libxml2 with a wxWidgets application in a Unicode
> > compile, I have been looking around for suitable libraries or DLLs.
> > My preference would be using MSVC 2010 Express as the compiler/debugger.
> >
> > I did find instructions for building the libraries using MSVC 2008/2010 by
> > Fabiano Ricci at: http://www.fabianoricci.org/?cat=62,
> > but when I look at the makefile.msvc I see /D _MBCS which I take to mean
> > that the compiled output would no be what I want or need.
>
> For the most of it, libxml2 uses UTF-8 strings internally and relies on
> the ordinary C standard library functions to interact e.g. with the file
> system. It largely ignores the distinctions between _UNICODE, _MBCS, and
> "ANSI" one may encounter in programming Windows-specific applications.
> Practically you may run into trouble asking libxml2 to open certain file
> names, ...

Actually, libxml2 on Windows can open Unicode Filenames just fine - you 
just pass an UTF-8 encoded char* (not unsigned char*) for the filename 
to xmlReadFile.

cheers,
Martin